Amid the Wet’suwet’en standoff, a look back at the Oka crisis

The standoff between supporters of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and the RCMP has become a full-blown national crisis. The RCMP has been trying to enforce a BC Supreme Court injunction to allow workers from Coastal Gaslink to start working on a pipeline that would run through unceded Wet'suwet'en territory. Solidarity protests have popped up across the country, crippling Canada’s rail network. Amid all this, politicians and indigenous leaders have been warning that we can’t have another Oka crisis. Today, a look back at that crisis in 1990, and the lessons the Canadian government can take from it.

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